> > How did we manage to become that bad?> > Its not so bad, the problem is how do you tune the system. If you prefer to> not interrupt the IDE transfers, which seems to be the default case, you> loose IRQ latency, which doesn't matter in much cases, but not on> this. You can tune it (hdparm work also with cdwriters, since> even if it use ide-scsi, the underlying driver is the ide driver.